કપટી અને આપસવારથીના હાથમાં સતા ના હોતી.

kapaṭī anē āpasavārathīnā hāthamāṁ satā nā hōtī.

Literally: Power ought not to be in the hands of the deceitful and the self-serving.
What it means: Authority given to those two is authority turned against everyone else.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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